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Rahmuna Shehabuddin--known to friends as "Elora"--was doing thesis research in her native Bangladesh when she heard the news: Her parents and two sisters were among the millions trapped by the Iraqi army in Kuwait City. Her mother and sisters were released in September, but her father, the ambassador...
Little wonder, then, that Shehabuddin has directed her attention homeward whenever possible. She spent last summer working for an organization that gives loans to the landless in Bangladesh. The organization has helped 800 thousand people, she says, but 50 million landless people remain. She wrote her senior thesis in the...
And that's just what she intends to do. With a Pforzheimer fellowship, Shehabuddin plans to continue working for the lending organization she studied in her thesis. Then, it is on to graduate school in sociology or international relations, and, finally, back to native Bangladesh.
Sonya M. Rudenstine, 21, is a junior political science major at Stanford who is planning to write her senior thesis on the privatization of prisons. She plays lacrosse and sings in the Stanford University Choir.
Sue Carls has made the most of her Harvard career inside and outside the classroom--as a journalist, piano teacher, and thesis-writer. And next year, she plans to take on the topsy-turvy world of rock and roll.